Politics is personal ? that's the lesson Ed needs to learn | Jackie Ashley (Guardian)

The Labour leader looks lonely at the top. He needs to widen his circle of
allies ? and that has to include his brother

If there was one overused expression in the 70s it was "the personal is
political". It hasn't gone away, as the SlutWalk controversy shows, but when
it comes to Westminster, perhaps we ought to invert it. "The political is
personal." The troubles and feuds are not often genuinely ideological.

That's certainly true of the mess at the top of the Labour party just now. Why
is Ed Miliband getting such a kicking? It's hardly just deserts for a single
poor Commons performance. No, it's mainly because so many people are still
outraged that the junior brother, the underrated backroom boy, swiped the top
job. The political is personal.

How did he manage to get the job? Partly because his brother had irritated too
many Labour MPs by being grand. They felt they were being taken for granted,
that the Blairites were a superior little clique. The ideological gap came
second. The political is personal.

Yes, there was an ideological difference between the brothers but it wasn't,
and isn't, very significant. The leaked ...

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